Makes you wonder what BoingBoing 2113 will be saying about our technology-obsessed culture... In 2013, people actually thought that letting their children interface with the world primarily via small, bright image screens was a good developmental idea...

Quite a bit of these have modern equivalents that none would think twice about. The bike carrier now goes behind the seat now. The scary looking auto cradles have become auto swings. Alas, no one has made serious effort to solving the screaming baby on transportation issue.

Before babies irritated people on commercial flights, they disturbed the peace on passenger trains. "We have been hoping for years that some intelligent inventor would come along with a device to can obstreperous infants during the late hours of the night," we wrote. "We suggested a hermetically-sealed can wrapped in sound-proof material, but Caleb M. Prather, of Evanston, Illinois, who is the inventor of the can illustrated, sidestepped our instructions at several important points."

Will no one save us the terror of red eye flights with screaming infants? I know they could leave theirs at home rather than torturing and us and their infants... They seem insulted when I bring it up, though.

On one of my more torturous red eyes, I had similar thoughts. I suspect it's not great for babies though and my suspicions aside, I doubt parents who are content to let their babies' experience the ear-pain inducing flights aren't likely to give benadryl to their kids.